Top-seeded Ruben Bemelmans of Belgium will face wild card Tom Fawcett, a
Stanford senior from Winnetka, Ill., on Monday or Tuesday in the first round of
the Tiburon (Calif.) Challenger.
The singles draw for the $100,000 tournament at the Tiburon Peninsula Club,
across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, was held today.
Bemelmans, a 29-year-old left-hander, reached the third round of Wimbledon as a
qualifier in July. He is ranked No. 92 in the world. Fawcett, 6-foot-5 (1.96
meters), is No. 8 in the college preseason rankings.
Second-seeded Tennys Sandgren of Gallatin, Tenn., will meet Dennis Novikov of
Milpitas in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sandgren, who lost in the first round of
the French Open and U.S. Open this year in his first two Grand Slam main-draw
appearances, is ranked No. 100.
Sixth seed and defending champion Darian King of
Barbados will play Mackenzie McDonald, who grew up in Piedmont in the Bay
Area.
Fourth-seeded Michael Mmoh, last year's runner-up, will take on Noah Rubin, the
2014 Wimbledon boys champion, in a matchup of top American prospects.
In
the first round of qualifying today, top seed and 2015 champion Tim
Smyczek of Tampa, Fla., beat Christopher O'Connell of Australia 6-4, 5-7,
6-2.
Smyczek, 29, will face another Australian, Greg Jones, on Sunday after a 10 a.m.
match on Center Court.
Andre
Goransson of Sweden defeated Bernardo Saraiva of Portugal 6-4, 6-3 in a matchup
of former Cal and USF standouts, respectively.
Falling were wild cards Florian Lakat of France, John Lamble of Saratoga in the
Bay Area and Stevie Gould of nearby Corte Madera. Lakat played with Goransson at
Cal, and Lamble starred at Santa Clara. Gould is ranked No. 1 in the Northern
California 18s.
Here are the singles main draw, singles qualifying
draw and Sunday's schedule.
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